vacuum hose at back of instrument panel making horrid noise!!
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Is my car going to spontaneously combust??!
So I've just refitted my instrument panel and dash having replaced my speedo cable. That's working beautifully, except now I have a hideous squealing noise coming from inside the dash, I guess it's the vacuum hose that connects to what I think is the fuel consumption gauge which is isn't working either.
Is this vacuum leak going to negatively affect the performance of the engine? (Or worse still is the whole to explode when I hit over 4000rpm, which is what is currently sounds like?!!!) It would be very nice if I can drive the car a bit for the next day or 2 before I have to remove the instrument panel YET(!) again, to refit the hose, hopefully correctly this time.
ANY ADVICE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
Many thanks!
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I ran with out any instruments for a couple of days and the hose was not connected to anything and it would make more noise when accelerating and went quiet when coasting down a hill.
1988 Mk1 Golf GTi Cabriolet 1.8cc DX, K-jet. Daily drive. 317,000 miles and counting
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I actually had it disconnected for years, it was only when I took the air inlet manifold off to change the gasket that I saw the pipe had split in half just before it went through the bulk head
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But randomly the next morning when I drove it to work the noise had gone completely. (The night before I'd squeezed my arm through the space where the stereo should be and fiddled with the hose - didn't seem to work then, but a good night's rest must have done the trick…??!) No doubt it will come back though, but so far so good…
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